From New York Times bestselling author Richard Matheson, best known for his horror and fantasy writing, comes a highly praised Western that shows the master's hand in this genre as well.
Back East, they told tall tales about Marshal Clay Halser, the fearless Civil War veteran who became known as the "Hero of the Plains" for his daring exploits in the Wild West. But the truth, as revealed in his private journals, is even more compelling.
A callow youth in search of excitement, Halser travels to the raucous cow towns of the frontier, where his steady nerve and ready trigger finger soon mark him as a gunfighter to be reckoned with. As both an outlaw and a lawman, he carves out a legendary career. But fame proves to be the one enemy he can never outdraw—and a curse that haunts him to the bitter end.
© 2011 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781481569699
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 15 mars 2011
From New York Times bestselling author Richard Matheson, best known for his horror and fantasy writing, comes a highly praised Western that shows the master's hand in this genre as well.
Back East, they told tall tales about Marshal Clay Halser, the fearless Civil War veteran who became known as the "Hero of the Plains" for his daring exploits in the Wild West. But the truth, as revealed in his private journals, is even more compelling.
A callow youth in search of excitement, Halser travels to the raucous cow towns of the frontier, where his steady nerve and ready trigger finger soon mark him as a gunfighter to be reckoned with. As both an outlaw and a lawman, he carves out a legendary career. But fame proves to be the one enemy he can never outdraw—and a curse that haunts him to the bitter end.
© 2011 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781481569699
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 15 mars 2011
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Arnór
1 mars 2020
Sometimes a book will really surprise you. At face value, Journal Of The Gun Years May strike any reader as a typical antihero western about a quick-drawing gunslinger and his adventures, but it’s a poignant look at the darker sides of fame, the thin line between hero worship and infamy; and for a book written in 1991 (taking place in the 1860-70s), it’s an oddly topical comment on the dangers of fake news, as the protagonist is both built up and torn down by conflicting media coverage that all paints his exploits in hyperbole and outright lies, whether it’s putting him in a positive light or a negative one.
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